第71屆金球獎：花落誰家
The film 12 Years a Slave took the coveted Golden Globe for best drama, and American Hustle won best musical or comedy on Sunday in a kickoff to the Hollywood awards season that foreshadows a wide scattering of honors for a year crowded with high-quality movies.
Only two films garnered more than one award at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards, an important but not entirely accurate barometer for the industry's highest honors, the Academy Awards to be held on March 2.
American Hustle, a romp through corruption in the 1970s directed by David O. Russell, was the top winner with three Globes for its seven nominations, while the modest AIDS film Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey, took two acting awards - for him and co-star Jared Leto.
British director Steve McQueen's brutal depiction of pre-Civil War American slavery in 12 Years a Slave, based on a true story of a free black man, Solomon Northup, who was sold into slavery, only won one award out of its seven nominations. It was entirely shut out from the acting honors, for which it was the presumed favorite.
But best drama is the top award of the Golden Globes and McQueen thanked actor and producer Brad Pitt, who played a small part in the film but a big role in getting it made. "Without you this movie would never had gotten made, so thank you, wherever you may be," McQueen said.
Among the films passed by were two darlings of the critics: the Coen brothers' paean to the 1960s folk scene Inside Llewyn Davis and Alexander Payne's homage to the heartland, Nebraska.
The first big night of the Hollywood awards season is the journalistic domain of 90 some members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who wield outsized clout in the awards race as buzz around the early honors influences members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in their voting for the Oscars.
Oscar nominations are to be announced on Thursday, and 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle are likely to be in the list of 10 nominees for best picture, going head-to-head unlike in the Globes, where they competed in two separate categories.
The Globes have a mixed record when it comes to predicting the Oscar best picture, though last year's best drama winner, Argo, did go on to win the Academy Award for best movie.
Array of recognition
In a setting more intimate and whimsical than the tightly scripted Oscars, A-listers and returning co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler poked fun at the most powerful in the glamorous audience.
It was a night in which there seemed to be a prize for most every film, a reflection of a banner year for quality cinema in which critically acclaimed films piled up in the last half of the year.
The top drama acting awards went to Cate Blanchett for her turn as a riches-to-rags socialite in Woody Allen's tragicomedy Blue Jasmine and McConaughey for his portrayal of unlikely AIDS activist Ron Woodroof, a role for which he lost 22.7 kilograms.
"Ron Woodroof's story was an underdog, for years it was an underdog, we couldn't get it made. ... I'm so glad it got passed on so many times or it wouldn't have come to me," said McConaughey, widely lauded for a string of strong performances this year.
Russell, who reunited cast members from his previous films, reaped the rewards of loyal actors.
Amy Adams won best actress in a musical or comedy for her role as the conniving partner of a con-man played by Christian Bale in American Hustle, while Jennifer Lawrence took best supporting actress for her turn as his loopy wife.
"David, you write such amazing roles for women," Adams told the star-studded room as she accepted the award. She starred in Russell's 2010 The Fighter, while Lawrence won the best actress Oscar last year for his previous film, Silver Linings Playbook.隨着上週日好萊塢頒獎季揭開帷幕，電影《爲奴十二年》獲得夢寐以求的金球獎最佳劇情片，《美國騙局》獲得最佳音樂/喜劇獎，頒獎季的來臨意味着各種榮譽將廣泛散落到那些優質電影頭上。
在第71屆金球獎上，只有兩部電影奪得一個以上獎項，而金球獎是業內最高榮譽獎即奧斯卡金像獎（即將於3月2日舉行）的一個重要風向標。
由大衛·O·拉塞爾導演的關於20世紀70年代美國政府的犯罪劇情片《美國騙局》是大贏家，七項提名中了三個，而由馬修·麥康納主演的關於艾滋病人的《達拉斯買傢俱樂部》則拿走最佳男主角和最佳男配角兩個獎項。
英國導演史蒂夫·麥奎因講述美國內戰前夕奴隸制的《爲奴十二年》是基於一個自由黑人所羅門·諾瑟普不幸被販賣爲奴隸的真實故事，該電影七項提名僅中一項，完全沒沾上大衆期待的演技類獎項。
不過最佳劇情片是金球獎的最高獎項，導演麥奎因感謝演員兼製片人布拉德·皮特，儘管他只出演了一小部分，但卻是電影成型的關鍵人物。麥奎因說，“沒有你，這部電影不可能完成，所以謝謝你，無論你此時在哪裏。”
被淘汰的電影中有兩部是評論家的摯愛：科恩兄弟關於20世紀60年代風俗民情的《醉鄉民謠》和亞歷山大·佩恩的《內布拉斯加》。
好萊塢頒獎季的首個夜宴迎來好萊塢外國記者協會的90多名業界人士，他們對美國電影藝術與科學學院評比奧斯卡有着重要的影響。
奧斯卡提名將於週四公佈，《爲奴十二年》和《美國騙局》很有可能入圍最佳影片的提名並直接對抗，而不是像金球獎那樣在不同的分類中角逐。
儘管去年金球獎的最佳劇情片《逃離德黑蘭》確實也贏得奧斯卡金像獎的最佳影片，但是金球獎在這方面的預報也不總是靠譜。
好評如潮
比起嚴格照本宣科的奧斯卡頒獎禮，金球獎的氛圍更讓人感到親近和搞怪。一線明星和再次搭檔的主持蒂娜·菲和艾米·波勒對着大腕兒觀衆逗趣。
這晚似乎大部分電影都有獎拿，反映出今年優質電影的大豐收，尤其是下半年廣受好評的電影一部接一部。
凱特·布蘭切特獲得最佳女主角，她在伍迪·艾倫的悲喜劇《藍色茉莉》中扮演由富變貧的社會名流。馬修·麥康納獲得最佳男主角，在《達拉斯買傢俱樂部》扮演艾滋病晚期病患者羅恩·伍德魯夫，爲此角色他特意減重22.7公斤。
麥康納今年的演出廣受好評，他說，“羅恩·伍德魯夫的故事一直不被看好，多年來如此，我們本來也完成不了……我很開心它通過了重重考驗，否則我就沒有這個機會了。”
《美國騙局》主演來自導演拉塞爾之前執導的電影，囊括了最佳女主角和女配角獎項。
艾米·亞當斯憑藉最佳音樂劇/喜劇《美國騙局》贏得音樂/喜劇類最佳女主角，戲中角色爲克里斯提安·貝爾扮演的行騙大師的合夥人，詹妮弗·勞倫斯在戲中扮演糊塗妻子，獲得最佳女配角。
臺下衆星雲集，亞當斯的獲獎感言是，“大衛，你爲女演員編的角色真是太棒了”。亞當斯在2010年主演了拉塞爾的《鬥士》，而詹妮弗·勞倫斯去年則因拉塞爾導演的《烏雲背後的幸福線》而獲得奧斯卡最佳女主角。
